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News Release from: Phrontier Technologies | Subject: Q-series and Phire fibre adapters
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2008
Fibre adapters carry machine vision data
The transparent design of Q-series and Phire products requires no user configuration and provides plug-and-play operation for all CameraLink compatible frame grabbers.
Quest and Phrontier Technologies have teamed up to develop the next level of camera interfacing Arising from the ever increasing bandwidth of camera systems and scalability required for machine vision systems, Quest has partnered with Phrontier Technologies in the development of a new OEM interface module
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Q-series is a compact fibre optics adapter board designed by Phrontier for integration with Quest Innovations' high performance cameras.
The Q-series provide 300Mbyte/s image data throughput directly output from the camera into optical fibre cables, eliminating the link distance limitation with copper cables.
The optical interface on the back of the Quest camera connects with Phrontier's Phire receiver on the frame grabber side to provide standard CameraLink interface and O/E conversion.
The transparent design of Q-series and Phire products requires no user configuration and provides plug-and-play operation for all CameraLink compatible frame grabbers.
"We are very excited about this new leading edge development", says Grant Zhang, cofounder of Phrontier.
"The co-operation between Phrontier and Quest Innovations will certainly help both companies to boost competitiveness and to expand our product horizon".
"Our next generation of five-channel multispectral camera systems will generate a total amount of 200Mbyte/s of data from the five image sensors (three colours and two infra-red) inside the camera", says Richard Meester, Founder and President of Quest Innovations.
"Besides doing onboard processing on this massive datastream, it is very important to get the data to the PC as fast as possible, without delays".
"Having this PC at a location not close to a camera is an important requirement".
The Q-series and Phire fibre adapters enable users to enjoy the most advanced fibre optics technologies from the low-cost multimode fibre link up to 250m to the ultra-long-haul 120km transmission with no sacrifice in camera performance or image degradation.
The flexibility and light weight of fibre cables allow the deployment of cameras for space limited and weight sensitive applications as well as in harsh environment.
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